Omsk barracks crowding and prison hospital sickness as received in the later notes

The Omsk prison, as later written in House of the Dead, packed convicts in barracks and a hospital where sickness circulated. It is not the 1862 book as a justice text and not fettered labour as a work-fact. No unique typhus table is invented; the book’s hospital pages are the source-limit.

Context

Infect path: crowding. Medium confidence on named diseases; high on the hospital as a place. Shared with other convicts. State prison design. Distinct from his own epilepsy.

That reading is an impact-path choice, not a property stored on the Fact itself.

Why it matters

Prison crowding-sickness is an infect path of medium confidence and modest-to-moderate weight. It is not a unique 1850s Siberian epidemic series.

Shared responsibility is part of Omsk barracks crowding and prison hospital sickness as received in the later notes. Naming Fyodor Dostoyevsky does not delete co-authors, institutions, or later transmitters. The lag from 1850-01-01 to any measured indicator is not treated as zero. Alternative explanations — weather, other armies, later statutes, or independent cultural change — remain live where the sources do not close them.